The Council has attempted to achieve a balance in the way in which
medical research under its sponsorship is supported. The majority of
the funds at its disposal are still used to assist individual research workers
who request funds to carry out a special project usually over a three year
period. As has been the practice, these requests are first evaluated by
the individual subcommittee mentioned above and only those which are
considered to have real scientific merit and a realistic chance of being
brought to a successful conclusion, are recommended. The Council
regrets that in this area insufficient funds existed to support all of those
who had such recommendations. This resulted from a general lack of
funds and from increase in the numbers of young physicians and scientists
interested in and capable of doing medical research